Video Recruit – Automated Interviewing Solution

Why Video Recruit
?

Automated yet spontaneous

Prepare the questions you would like to ask – about expertise, language
skills or personality – then review the unrehearsed and unrevised responses
from your candidates. With Video Recruit, the candidate cannot stop, pause, redo
or review their video responses, so you get an immediate and accurate insight
into their character, competencies and communication skills.

Expand your candidate pool – shorten the time to hire

Rapidly identify best-fit candidates from a large candidate pool. Focus your
time only on those candidates who have what it takes. No more need to give your
undivided attention to the wrong candidate for the rest of the interview… just
to be polite!

Cutting-edge recruitment technology – with no investment

Video Recruit harnesses the power of new technologies to improve the
recruitment process – and provides all the benefits through an easy and
accessible online service. No need for any upfront investment, and you can be up
and running within 24 hours with your own branded and dedicated
secure area.

Fair, fast and friendly

All your candidates receive the same questions, same instructions and same
time limits – eliminating situational bias. They record their interview at a
time and location of their choice. Gone are the costs and challenges of getting
away from work to attend fruitless first interviews. With Video Recruit,
candidates know that an invitation to a face-to-face interview means they have
already been shortlisted – just a few days after sending their
application.

Screen more candidates – spend less time

Too many CVs with too few insights. Scheduling hassles. Valuable time lost in
face-to-face interviews with candidates you realise are incompatible from the
first hello. Video Recruit skips the pitfalls, allowing you to focus your
attention on the right candidates from the get-go. No more time wasted.

Be anywhere – be everywhere

Consider candidates from anywhere in the world – at no additional cost. No
need to travel or schedule interviews across multiple time zones. With just one
click in your internet browser, you can review all your candidates any time and
any place – at work, in the comfort of your own home, or waiting for a flight
at the airport.

Shorten the process – increase the quality of hire

No more time spent contemplating or debating which candidates to take through
to the next round of face-to-face or telephone interviews. With the convenience
and affordability of Video Recruit, you can easily and efficiently review ALL
applicants and so guarantee the best candidates are selected.

How it works

Your candidates only need access to a computer with an internet connection, a
webcam, and a microphone.

easy steps to increased efficiency
:

Prepare your questions, send email invitations to your candidates (set a
deadline to ensure you get your responses on time)

Lower travel costs and a wider candidate pool

“We’ve been using Video Recruit since 2012 and I’ve already filled quite a number of positions this way. It allows us to make a very quick but high quality pre-selection which means we can screen more applicants and choose from a wider pool. It’s also good for the applicants, because I wouldn’t invite so many candidates to a face-to-face interview.
This way more people get a chance.

The way candidates present themselves on video, the way they behave and the environment they are recording in tells you a lot. We design the questions in such a way that a candidate can answer them clearly and the same set of questions asked under the same conditions allows us to compare the candidates with each other. We can be confident that we are asking the right people to come for a face-to-face interview.

It’s great that the whole process is independent of time and space: a candidate records in one place, I review in another, the hiring manager in yet another. Thanks to this, we’ve been able to reduce travelling which is both expensive and time-consuming”.

Volume pre-screening for graduate trainees

RegionSoutheastern Europe

IndustryFood manufacturing & processing

PositionGraduate trainees

“Danone is one of the world’s leading producers of dairy products, waters, medical and baby nutrition products. In Southeastern Europe, our business is focused on fresh dairy products and we employ about 380 people. Each year between 5 and 10 graduates join us as trainees in various functions including Marketing, HR and Finance. It’s a popular programme and we receive a huge volume of applications.

We use Video Recruit to screen our applicants; it’s a quick and effective way to “see“ a large number of candidates and we receive about 150 applications for each position. We use automated video interviewing to ask some fairly easy but important questions which give us an accurate picture of the applicants‘ motivations and ambitions as well as the quality of their English and some basic technical competencies. Generation Y is so at ease with this sort of interaction that it’s not a problem getting them to record an interview.

It’s great that we can watch the videos anytime anywhere and being able to pause them if something urgent comes up is a real bonus. On top of that, sharing the recorded interview means that we don’t have the hassle of getting 4 or 5 people together in the same place at the same time!“

Pan-European recruitment of English-speaking young professionals

RegionEurope

IndustryBrewing & distribution

PositionGraduate trainees

”We are one of the world’s leading brewers. In Europe, we own over 20 major brands - in the UK, Ireland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. With over 6500 employees, we coordinate recruitment from our European headquarters in Prague.

We recruit from all across Europe and since English is the official company language, our employees outside of the local production lines need to speak it fluently. Travel costs have obviously been a large chunk of our recruitment budget.

We piloted automated video interviewing for our management trainee programme and had a near 100% response to our invitations! The tool is perfect for us as a pan-European recruiter: we can easily test for English language competence, share the best video interviews with hiring managers across Europe and significantly reduce our travel costs. And the video interviews give us a much better sense of the candidates than we could get from just reading their CVs.
We’ll now be using automated video interviewing as part of the recruitment process for our office staff up to mid-management level. We also plan to expand it to support our internal talent management programme. It’s a great innovation and the kind of young people that we want to attract to join us are happy to use such technology”.

Video screening identifies the highest potential candidates

“Our graduate programme is extremely popular. Each year, we recruit up to 10 new graduates and we‘ll typically receive around 1000 applications.

We started using automated video interviewing in 2012 and for the 2013 graduate recruitment programme, we used it to replace telephone interviews. It has significantly improved the quality of this stage of screening. The video interviews primarily test how quickly candidates think on their feet and how they react under time pressure. We like the fairness of the process: every candidate is asked the same question in the same way and that means that we can make valid comparisons.

The videos provide us with much more information than phone screening, and being able to see the candidate’s body language is really helpful. Some candidates are obviously nervous because it’s still such a new tool but we take that into consideration. They appreciate being able to record the interview at their convenience and most report finding the interview an interesting experience. These are the kind of people we want to be working for Česká Spořitelna!

Within the recruitment team, we review all the recorded interviews. We then share the best with hiring managers across the bank. More than 20 of them will see the videos and they then tell us who they want to attend our assessment centre. They really like this approach and it's been a great boost for HR’s image!

Successful interviewees are offered a one-year contract which is then made permanent subject to their performance. We are definitely recruiting a higher quality of candidate! We’ve used automated video interviewing for two rounds of graduate recruitment and so far all recruits have been offered full-time contracts. We are now considering introducing this form of screening for all the positions in the bank that we think would be appropriate“.

A quick and effective way to identify the right personality

"We are the largest independent restaurant operator in Central and Eastern Europe, with a portfolio of brands including Pizza Hut, KFC, Burger King and Starbucks. Poland is one of the largest countries in Europe and travel costs, both for us and our candidates have traditionally been very high because we recruit from our HQ while our hiring needs are spread across the country.

We use Video Recruit for a wide range of vacancies including all our in-store managerial positions. The recruitment team works closely with hiring managers to develop the interview so that we efficiently combine questions aiming at discovering our candidates’ soft skills with confirming the required technical skills. When hiring managers view the videos, they can quickly determine whether the candidate is the kind of person we are looking for. As an example, our customer facing branch staff need to speak good English which can be easily and accurately tested. More importantly, we want staff with really positive energy and of course the video interview shows us that immediately in a way that telephone interviewing never could. It’s a really efficient and effective way to make sure with whom we want to invest time in a face-to-face interview".

More candidates, less time

RegionSoutheastern Europe

IndustryTelco

PositionSales, administration, IT, network operations

“We are Bulgaria’s leading telco operator and one of the first organisations in the country to introduce automated video interviewing into our recruitment processes. We use Video Recruit to screen applicants for a wide range of technical, administrative and sales positions.

On average we will receive over 50 applications for positions like these. Before Video Recruit, we would have held telephone interviews with 12-13 applicants and invited 7-8 for a face-to-face interview. Now, after a first screening of CVs, we invite 10-12 applicants to record a video interview and 3-4 for a face-to-face interview. We make it clear that this is not replacing a face-to-face interview but is a new part of our recruitment process. Most candidates are curious but positive and expect this sort of innovation from Vivacom.

The interview tests primarily for technical knowledge so only higher quality candidates get through to the next round. We also share the best recorded interviews internally which speeds up decision-making and many more people can have a say. This means that we can confidently invite fewer but better prepared candidates to a face-to-face interview”.

How to choose when everyone's a winner?

RegionUSA

IndustryEducation

PositionScholarship applicants

“Hope College is a liberal arts college of 3,300 students located along the shore of Lake Michigan. Our aim is to prepare students to live and serve in a global society. Each year we award two students from developing countries a significant 4 year scholarship - one covers the full cost of tuition, and the second also funds living costs.

Until we discovered video interviewing, our selections were based on a combination of academic record, service and activities, essays, and references. While this was good, we weren’t able to learn the personalities behind the words. All were intelligent and accomplished so, out of nearly 200 deserving candidates, how does one choose when everyone’s a winner?

Watching and listening to someone explain their thoughts give insights that just aren’t possible from reading them. The saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words” is multiplied exponentially with video.

It’s amazing how much the videos bring these young people to life! Through them we get a strong sense of their passion and concern for others and their desire to serve. Being able to see their sincerity and true character is the single greatest benefit of video interviewing for us.
We are looking for additional ways to utilize this technology in other areas of our admission process, and I see no reason to search for another vendor. Video-Recruit’s responsiveness to our requests and questions, and the ease of its use for our applicants make it a win-win.

Video interviewing has put us in a better position to select young people who will really make a difference in the world. And that is our ultimate goal”.

Long-distance candidate screening

"Ideal Standard's HR team for Eastern Europe is based in Sevlievo, Bulgaria, where we manage recruitment mainly for Russia and Bulgaria.

Our team first started using Video Recruit to recruit Sales & Marketing staff for Ideal Standard Russia. This eliminated many of the complexities and costs of interviewing candidates across such a huge country. More importantly, it made sure that we avoided any time wasted in awkward interviews with candidates whose CVs were a distant reality from the truth!

With Video Recruit, we significantly reduced the number of telephone interviews we had to carry out. Before, we would have spoken with about 30 of 70 applicants; the video interviews allowed us to reduce this to just 12. The telephone interview is now much more specific as we have already "met" the candidates, so the final face-to-face interviews are only with the most promising candidates. Even where geography isn't the main consideration, we are now using Video Recruit as it's really improved the quality of our screening process.

Internally, the response to our use of video interviewing has been really positive. How can it not be? The benefits are so obvious! Even though the candidates can't see us, there have been no negative reactions except from those who clearly aren't so interested in the position - which is a useful piece of information in itself! And the fact that we can watch the interviews whenever and wherever we want makes life so much easier!"

Recruitment and beyond: more candidates and enhanced sales training

RegionSoutheastern Europe

IndustryTelco

PositionBusiness Development, PHP developers

“As one of Bulgaria’s leading telco providers, we recruit nationwide and in other countries. We use Video Recruit to enhance our candidate screening – the interviews give us a much better feel than just looking at a CV. It also means that we can “see“ many more applicants, no matter where they live, and test some of the core skills we’re looking for, such as language skills. Because it’s so new, most candidates are surprised to be asked to record an interview but acknowledge that it’s a very innovative way of recruiting and they appreciate that it saves time all round. It’s really helpful to be able to share the interviews with colleagues and look at the candidates’ CVs when we’re watching the videos. As well as reducing our recruitment costs, we now have more time for other work.

We’ve also started using Video Recruit internally as a training tool: it’s a great way for us to test that our sales teams are familiar with new products, particularly if they’ve been off site when they were launched. The automated video interview approach shows us where there are any knowledge gaps which we can then quickly fill.“

Enabling a lean and effective corporate administration

RegionCentral Europe

IndustryAerospace manufacturing

PositionPurchasing, project management, HR business partners

“Established in 1919, AERO Vodochody is today the largest aerospace manufacturer in the Czech Republic. We cooperate on major international aerostructure projects with companies such as Sikorsky, Bombardier and EADS. Since completing a major restructuring programme in 2007 and being acquired by Central European investment group Penta, we strive constantly to maintain a lean and efficient adminstrative structure.

We’re really excited to have discovered automated video interviewing! We use it to screen for a range of specialist head office positions, ranging from our HR business partners to project managers and procurement specialists. I can honestly say that the savings are almost miraculous! By using Video Recruit this year, I estimate that we will have reduced time invested in recruitment by 43% and our costs by 16%. The load on hiring managers is down by more than 75%. Most importantly, we can be confident that the face-to-face interviews we arrange will be time well invested!“

”bTV Media Group is a popular and widely-recognised national brand which provides a unique mix of diverse TV channels, websites and radio stations. We are widely considered an employer of choice so we receive a large volume of applications and a wide variety of candidates for most positions we advertise.

We use video interviewing for a very broad range of roles. It enhances the initial screening process and also replaces the first face-to-face interview. Our questions test the candidates’ specific areas of expertise and their experience so we can be sure that we are inviting only the most qualified ones for a face-to-face meeting.

Introducing automated video interviewing into our recruitment process has not only reduced the cost of hire; by sharing the recorded interviews, we can include more stakeholders in the decision-making process and involve hiring managers much earlier but need less of their time”.

Calling time on the job board spammers!

RegionCentral Europe

IndustryFinancial Services

PositionSecretarial

“DCGroup is not a heavy recruiter, but when we need to, we advertise on Poland's largest jobs board and are normally overwhelmed with applications. Screening these, arranging and then conducting interviews takes up a huge amount of my time and that of my team. Quite often, one third of candidates simply don’t show up for interview! Online job boards have made it much easier to apply for a position and many jobseekers don’t seem to keep track of their applications. After we received over 3000 applications last year for a single position, I knew we had to find a smarter way of screening.

So when we needed to hire a secretary, we decided to use Video Recruit.We eliminated entirely CV screening, the most time-consuming part of the process and invited every applicant to record a video interview. 1173 people applied! I wasn’t sure what sort of response rate we would get but I went on holiday knowing that all the candidate videos would be there to review when I returned.

88 candidates recorded videos - just 7%! Clearly, only those candidates who were genuinely interested had recorded an interview and so it was worth my time reviewing them. We saved many hours not screening applicants who weren't even particularly interested in the first place!

I look for people with positive energy and who are open to change and new ideas. The videos give a great sense of a candidate's personality and it is easy to decide who you want to meet in person. We invited just 12 candidates for a face-to-face interview. All of them attended - except for the one candidate who hadn't been able to record an interview but who we had agreed to see! The meetings confirmed the initial impressions we had gained about the candidates from their videos. The recruitment process as a whole took much less time, it was a far more valuable way of screening applicants and the candidates appreciated that we had shown respect for their time as well as ours. This way of interviewing is so effective that we will now use it for all open positions“.

Easy and effective assessment of language skills

“We use automated video interviewing as a screening tool and it’s now replaced the first face-to-face interview. It‘s a great way to get a quick sense of a candidate. And because we have a pan-European client base, language competence is a core skill for our research staff; they need to speak a number of different European languages and video interviewing is obviously a quick and effective way to assess this.

Candidates have mixed responses to this approach. Obviously there are some people who find it uncomfortable but by and large, most are impressed by the novelty of it and really appreciate the flexiblity that it offers them. For our part, sharing the videos internally allows us to include more people in the recruitment process and it’s a massive timesaver.“

A multinational team in the heart of Europe

Our management team brings decades of corporate experience – we understand
the value of a good hire

Annabelle Diamantino

Co-Founder / CEO

Annabelle spent more than a decade as the Regional IT Director for Havas
Worldwide (one of the largest integrated marketing communications agencies in
the world).

She earned a B.S. in Computer Science & Actuarial Science from the
University of Toronto, Canada.

Philip Staehelin

Co-Founder / Chairman

Philip has over 20 years experience in the corporate world and has held
senior management positions in, A.T. Kearney, T-Mobile, FleetCor and
Accenture.

A Swiss-American, he holds an MBA from INSEAD (France) and a BA in Economics
from the University of Colorado (USA).

Tomas Tomiczek

Chief Operating Officer

Tomas has more than 17 years of experience in corporate finance, private
equity, business restructuring, strategy planning and financial management.

Tomas is a Prague native (where he earned his Masters degree in Finance from
the University of Economics) but spent a number of years working in London.

Jiri Petvaldsky

Chief Technical Officer

Jiri is another EuroRSCG alumni, where he served as Technical Director and
Digital Production Leader for a number of years. He also led development teams
working on US-based MMORPG online games as well as a team that developed the
full online solution for GE Money Bank.

Jiri was born in the Czech Republic.

Gergana Sazlaykova

Business Development Director

Gergana has more than 10 years of international professional experience. She
comes from a management consulting background and has worked for world leading
companies such as A.T. Kearney and Weil, Gotshal & Manges.

She spent 12 years in the US where she earned a M.S.F.S. from Georgetown
University and a B.A in International Studies from Hope College, Michigan.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Video Recruit?

Video Recruit is a simple HR tool which enables recruiters to invite
candidates to record an automated online video interview as part of their
application. Candidates are invited via an email with an embedded hyperlink to
the Video Recruit website. Once on the website, the candidate is asked several
questions that are prepared in advance by the recruiter. The interview is
recorded via microphone and webcam and when completed, is made available to the
recruiter to review and share with colleagues.

What are the benefits of Video Recruit?

Video Recruit allows you to view your candidate videos whenever and wherever
you like, and for as long or as short as you like. You can also share these
videos with other colleagues involved in the recruitment process. No need to
coordinate timing, book a meeting room or hold a time slot in a busy schedule.
The time and cost savings are substantial, the time to hire is significantly
reduced, and the overall quality of hire is increased.

How long will it take me to learn how to use Video Recruit?

Video Recruit is logical, intuitive and simple to use. No formal training is
required but our support team is ready to assist you with any questions. And no
integration effort is required as the full functionality of the platform is
accessible online via a browser.

Are there any restrictions on viewing a Video Vignette (VV)?

You can view your candidates’ Video Vignettes as often as you like at no
extra charge. Video Vignettes should be stored in your candidate database for a
limited time in relation to their purpose, and with a maximum period of
6 months unless otherwise agreed with Video Recruit.

Can I try out Video Recruit to see how it works?

Can candidates record their Video Vignette if they do not have their own
webcam?

Candidates who do not have their own webcam may visit any of our Video
Recruit Recording Centers where they will be able to record their interview free
of charge. They may also visit internet cafes, school computer centers, public
libraries or anywhere else with webcam-enabled computers.

Can I customise the questions the candidate is asked in the video
interview?

Yes. You can create as many questions and question boxes (a selection of
questions) as you require. You can also specify how much time the candidate has
to answer each question.

Can I send multiple email invitations at one time?

Yes. Through the search function in the candidate database you can search and
select all candidates you would like to invite to record an interview.

Does the email invitation expire?

Yes. There is a default period of one week but you are free to change this as
you require.

Am I charged a credit for each email invitation I send?

No. You may send as many email invitations as you like and will be charged
only for each successfully recorded Video Vignette.

What is an online automated video interview?

An online automated job video interview is an interview you record at a time
and place to suit you.

What do I need to complete such an interview?

You will need a computer installed with a microphone, web camera, the latest
version of Flash (
http://www.adobe.com/…/flashplayer ) and an internet connection.
Alternatively you may visit one of our Video Recording Centers and record your
video interview there at no charge.

How does it work?

The interviewer prepares the questions they want you to answer, specifies a
date by which you need to complete the interview and sends you an email
invitation. You click on the link embedded in the email, read and accept the
Terms & Conditions, record as many practice questions as you require and
then start the interview. During the interview, you read and record your
answers, moving on to the next question at will or when the assigned question
time has expired. The interviewer can then review your video interview whenever
he/she wants.

Where do I do the interview?

You may record the interview wherever you like but it is important to select
a quiet room with good lighting to optimise the quality of the video
recording.

How do the practice questions work?

Before you start the actual interview you can test your audio and video
quality by recording a practice question. On the ‘Practice Question’ page,
click on ‘Record’, then record an answer which you can play back. You may
repeat this process as many times as you need.

Can I see the questions in advance?

No. Video Recruit intentionally simulates a live interview and so you do not
know the questions in advance.

Can I pause or redo the interview?

No. Once you have started recording your interview you will not be able to
pause it or redo it. You will also not be able to review it once you have
completed it. Should you have any technical difficulties during the recording,
send an email at support@video-recruit.com.

What should I do once I’ve finished recording the interview?

Nothing! Once you have arrived at our ‘Thank You’ page, just close your
browser. Your video job interview is automatically saved to your profile and the
interviewer is advised by email.

Flexible pricing for organisations of every size

Simple is beautiful! Credits from our two tariff plans can be purchased alone
or in combination to meet your hiring needs.

VR UNLIMITED* – credits per job position – no limit on
the number of video interviews recorded by your candidates! Send unlimited
interview invitations for 30 days.Tip: Ideal when you expect to receive a large number of applications for the
job position.

VR FLEXIBLE – credits per recorded video – one video interview credit
represents one recorded video.Tip: Want to invite just a few candidates to record a video interview?
Purchase the video interview credits you need.

VR UNLIMITED*

Job position credits

EUR

USD

6

450

510

12

850

960

60

3 500

3 940

120

5 900

6 640

250

10 900

12 250

500

19 900

22 370

VR FLEXIBLE

Video interview credits

EUR

USD

20

160

180

50

380

430

100

700

790

200

1 320

1 490

500

3 000

3 370

1000

5 000

5 620

Credits are valid for one year from date of purchase. Prices do not include
VAT.
*Depending on the geographical location, some restrictions may apply.